Strictly Speaking - hints added
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06/03/26 02:34 PM
06/03/26 02:34 PM
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Upstate NY
Pandora
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The clues in 1-10 all define words in obscure ways. A-J contains the actual definitions or descriptions of the words. Determine the real words and match them with the similar-sounding descriptions. Example: “Set of twelve” (dozen) would match with “meditate” (do Zen). Please explain your answers.
-1. Very small fall flower
-2. Braid hair improperly
-3. Shoe relative?
-4. Car pool member
-5. Foot
-6. Our successors on earth
-7. Excellent eye shader
-8. Full of winesaps and macs?
-9. Female donkey?
-10. Perform a hepatectomy
-a. put to use OR to fill out a job application
-b. straw boss
-c. mechanize
-d. Autumn orange color
-e. least, marginal
-f. utter, recite
-g. tale, saga
-h. analyze critically, appraise
-i. letter carrier
-j. doxy
If you spell the words "absolutely nothing" backwards, you get "Gnihton yletulosba",
which ironically means absolutely nothing.
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Re: Strictly Speaking
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06/03/26 02:53 PM
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flotsam
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I’ll try 6/i
postman (letter carrier) and ‘post man’ will be what they call those that replace us
Quantity has a quality all of its own
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Re: Strictly Speaking
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06/03/26 10:52 PM
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manxman
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2j. mistress (doxy)  hi Pandie mis=improperly tress=braid hair
Sometimes lost is where you need to be. Just because you don't know your direction doesn't mean you don't have one.
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Re: Strictly Speaking
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06/04/26 07:16 PM
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michele rose
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7b. supervisor excellent - super eye shader - visor 
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Re: Strictly Speaking - hints added
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06/05/26 09:35 AM
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michele rose
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3d. pumpkin pump - women's shoe kin - relative
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Re: Strictly Speaking - hints added
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06/05/26 11:20 AM
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manxman
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1e. minimum hi Pandie mini-very small mum-fall flower
Sometimes lost is where you need to be. Just because you don't know your direction doesn't mean you don't have one.
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